News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Ninjas of the Drill: STEM Outreach Stokes Girls' Interest in Engineering and Orthopedics
Kansas City, Mo. – When Dr. Jenni Buckley demonstrates how to fix a broken femur bone with an external fixator and power tools for a group of high school girls, she tells them that they too can be a ninja of the drill. “Sometimes girls are really at a disadvantage in terms of how much…
Suicide Rate Climbs by 30 Percent in Kansas as Government Slashes Mental Health Budgets
by Nick Haines | KCPT News October 23, 2013 Kansas City, MO – The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States this week picks up the story of an alarming increase in the Kansas suicide rate. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment recently released a startling report showing a…
Alternative High School in Urban Core Celebrates $8 Million Expansion
Kansas City, Mo. – The DeLaSalle Education Center, which serves about 300 alternative students in Kansas City’s urban core, celebrated an 18,000 sq. ft expansion Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. “We’re celebrating the realization of a vision,” said Mark Williamson, Executive Director of DeLaSalle, to attendees at the ribbon cutting. “It is the building that our…
Teva Neuroscience move complete, from Missouri to Kansas
Teva Neuroscience held a ribbon-cutting Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 for its new headquarters located at the corner of College Boulevard and Nall Avenue in Overland Park, Kan. The company moved across the state line from a location near I-435 and Holmes Road. This location is used by Teva’s Specialty Medicines Pharmaceutical businesses. Their main products…
Gov. Jay Nixon stops plans for execution
Todd Feeback | KCPT News On Friday, Oct. 11, the planned execution of Alan Nicklasson, was stopped by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. Nicklasson was scheduled to be injected with a lethal dose of the drug propofol. This was the first time drug was to be used in an execution. Ordinarily, it is used as an…